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The Book Eaters



by
Sunyi Dean

Edition
Hardcover edition
Publisher
Macmillan
Imprint
Tor Books
ISBN
9781250810182
POTENTIALLY SENSITIVE AREAS
Discrimination: Sexuality , Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco: Alcohol Abuse , Language: Strong Language , Violence: Gun Violence
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Set in modern day UK, The Book Eaters is a dark and fantastical story about a family who literally consume books for sustenance and the lengths one woman will go to in order to protect her son, perfect for fans of Library at Mount Char, Vicious, and The Ten Thousand Doors of January.

The Family, one of the oldest lineages of Book Eaters, have everything they need: wealth, extra-human strength, and an endless supply of fairytales to feed their daughters.

Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet and delicious. Eating a map can help them remember destinations, and children, when they misbehave, are forced to eat dry, musty pages from dictionaries.

Devon is part of The Family, an old and reclusive clan of book eaters. Her brothers grow up feasting on stories of valor and adventure, and Devon—like all other book eater women—is raised on a carefully curated diet of fairytales and cautionary stories.

But real life doesn't always come with happy endings, as Devon learns when her son is born with a rare and darker kind of hunger—not for books, but for human minds.

THE BOOK EATERS is a contemporary fantasy debut. It's a story of motherhood, sacrifice, and hope; of queer identity and learning to accept who you are; of gilded lies and the danger of believing the narratives others create for you.

POTENTIALLY SENSITIVE AREAS
Discrimination: Sexuality , Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco: Alcohol Abuse , Language: Strong Language , Violence: Gun Violence

Details

Format

Print

Page Count

304

Trim Size

9 1/2" x 6 1/4"

Dewey

F

AR

0: points 0

Genre

Fic

Scholastic Reading Counts

0

JLG Release

Oct 2022

Book Genres

Fantasy, Horror

Topics

Books and reading. Mothers and sons. LGBTQ. Northern England. Great Britain. Clans. Control (psychology). Food. Gender roles. Hunger. Motherhood.

 


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